Video of insurgents blowing themselves up with their own IED.
Saves us the cost of the bullets.
Posts Tagged ‘afghanistan’
Pakistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Russia. What a coincidence???
So, today a bridge was blown up by the Taliban that is on the main supply route to Afghanistan.
The Russians announced a multi-billion dollar aid package for Kyrgystan.
Kyrgyzstan (moments later) announces that the US airbase supporting Afghan operations should be closed post-haste.
Isn’t it just amazing the coincidences???
Who is the Afghan Revolutionary Front?
ARF? Ok, obviously they aren’t directed at the English-speaking world. The Animal Rescue Foundation can get away with it, but…whatever.
The Afghan Revolutionary Front claimed responsibility for a bomb scare in Paris this morning. The sticks of dynamite, no detonator, were found in a restroom in the Paris’s Printemps Haussmann department store [...]
Exit German Special Forces, enter, German (or French) AWACs to defend against the Taliban (Air Force/Farce)??? WTF?
Your services are no longer required…I guess.
For three year a crack German commando team has sat in Afghanistan and stared at the Sun. They’ve been deployed in combat operations ZERO (that’s 0) times and Germany politicians are starting to demand that they return. Fair enough. You’re not going to use them because [...]
Is Ahmed Wali Karzai, the brother of President Hamid Karzai, a drug dealer?
Is he his brother's keeper?
The New York Times is asking that question today.
When Afghan security forces found an enormous cache of heroin hidden beneath concrete blocks in a tractor-trailer outside Kandahar in 2004, the local Afghan commander quickly impounded the truck and notified his boss.
Before long, the commander, Habibullah Jan, received a telephone [...]
Russia threatens NATO supply route to Afghanistan
Not a pleasant drive
Russia is upping the ante in their current standoff with NATO by threatening a backup supply route for NATO forces in use in Afghanistan, according to the London Times. The road would allows supplies to avoid the ‘bandit country’ of the Khyber pass where things have gotten a bit hairy:
The need [...]
War Surgery in Afghanistan and Iraq: A Series of Cases, 2003-2007
The Government Printing Office has a new title out that’s actually quite a big seller apparently. ”War Surgery in Afghanistan and Iraq: A Series of Cases, 2003-2007″ is written by military doctors and covers some incredibly gruesome casualties they’ve experience in Iraq and Afghanistan, both military and civilian victims. The book is being [...]
